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Weapons expert Hamish de Breton Gordon told Express.co.uk that Kyiv is a “likely target” for a nuclear strike. Meanwhile, Evacation centres in the capital have been prepped for a nuclear strike, with the city of Kyiv saying it is supplying them with potassium iodine pills. The pills can help block the absorption of harmful radiation by the thyroid gland if taken just before or immediately after exposure to nuclear radiation.
They will be distributed to residents in areas contaminated by nuclear radiation if there is a need to evacuate, the city council said in a statement.
Speaking about the distribution of the pills, Mr de Breton-Gordon explained: “The EU donated a whole lot of iodine to Ukraine to try and reassure people.
“They’re trying to protect them and I think it’s very genuine.
“There’s an awful lot of nuclear sabre rattling going on.”
He said that fears of a nuclear strike have grown in recent months, as Putin is “not acting rationally”, warning that he may “go out with a bang”.
The expert said: “I think there is a real concern a nuclear peace is a very real option but Putin is not acting rationally.
“The whole idea of the nuclear peace between east and west is that people act rationally.
“And now that he is acting irrationally and clutching at straws, it seems, people are concerned that he will go out with a bang.
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Meanwhile, the US Defense Department estimated that at least 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24 2022.
Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, warned that Putin’s “humiliation in Ukraine raises the prospect of nuclear strikes in areas which he now claims are Russian territory”.
He called for a “robust, international, conventional, military response” in order to avoid a “dangerous precedent”.
Mr Ellwood added: “Putin has long exploited the West’s weakness to challenge his military advances directly.
“It’s time to spell out now the consequences – rather than hope it won’t happen.”
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Times that Russia did not want to take part in what he called “nuclear rhetoric”.
He said: “The Western media, Western politicians and heads of state are engaging in a lot of exercises in nuclear rhetoric right now.
“We do not want to take part in this.”
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